Gala Porras-Kim is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice focuses on the relationship between historical objects and the institutions that collect, care for, and exhibit them. During her 2019–2020 fellowship at the Institute, Porras-Kim researched how items from the Sacred Cenote of Chichen Itza, a Maya site, arrived in the collections of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Precipitation for an Arid Landscape grows out of that research.